116 Indian Nurses Missing After Leaving Baghdad
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW DELHI —
At least 116 Indian nurses who were working in Baghdad hospitals disappeared en route to Jordan, and Indian diplomats have been sent to look for them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
He said the nurses left Baghdad on Tuesday with exit visas but there was no record of their crossing the border. An Indian envoy from Baghdad and another from Jordan were each heading for the border to try to find the nurses.
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